Elon Musk has recently launched his new AI company, xAI. The announcement of the company’s formation was made by Musk on Twitter, and the company’s website is now live. According to the website, xAI aims to “understand the universe.” Although further details about the company’s objectives are not provided, the website does list the names of the team members.
The team members of xAI have previous experience working at prominent organizations such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. They have contributed to significant advancements in the field, including the development of widely used methods and breakthroughs like the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, adversarial examples, Transformer-XL, and GPT models.
While specific information about the company’s work and goals is limited, xAI will be hosting a Twitter Spaces discussion on July 14, allowing people to interact with the team and ask questions. The website also indicates that xAI is a separate entity from X Corp (Twitter) but will collaborate closely with X, Tesla, and other companies.
The xAI team consists of members such as Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zihang Dai. The team is currently advised by Dan Hendrycks, a researcher leading the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit organization focused on mitigating societal-scale risks associated with AI.
News about xAI first emerged in April when a Nevada filing revealed its incorporation in March. Elon Musk, who was previously associated with OpenAI, has recently expressed criticism of the company and AI technology in general.
